Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1887-12-27
STEAM AND SMOKE.
A Narrow Escape From a
Terrible Disaster.
MORE CONSTRUCTION FORCES.
Anaheim to Have u New Railroad
Which il to Run From Long
Beach to POmona-N0tes.

Yesterday afternoon between ant
2 o'clock a most horrible accident wai
barely averted by the presence Of
mind OF Southern Pacific engineer
A street car belonging u the City
and Central Railway Company waa
crowded with people when it was
crossing the Southern Pacific Com
pany's railroad tracks at the south
end Of that company's yard at San
Fernando street. An engine, No. 2Q7,
was standing about fifteen feet east OF
where the street railway crosses the
railroads lines, and Just when the
horse attached to the car had gotten
upon the track, the engineer rang his
bell aud started to back down toward
the car; in second the passengers
saw their great danger, men shouted
and women screamed and the excite
ment became intense.
Those passengers upon the platform
Of the car stepped off and out OF all
danger, several inside jumped off
safely, the driver whipped up his
horse and cleared the track just as
the engineer stopped his engine, not
more than five feet from the street
Car, and scarcely that from the form
Of "a woman upon the track, who, in
attempting to jump Off had fallen and
struck her head upon rail becoming
unconscious.
Several OF the passengers ran to
assist her to rise, but were shocked
to see blood pouring from her ears
and nose. She was taken up and
carried to shop across the street,
where she lay unconscious until
nearly z O'Clock, when she was taken
to the home OF her sister, Mrs. FL. M.
Crowell, at l29 Elmira street. Her
name is Miss Sallie stevenson. Drs.
Cochran, Maynard and Moore were
Immediately summoned and spent the
afternoon in making an examination.
The street car, No. 10, was driven
by man named Gregg, and belongs
to the Spring and Sixth-stree line.
Mr. Gregg was seen by the HEIALD's
representative late last evening and
asked to relate how the accident oc-
cured. He said: 81 was on my
change trip-the one on which the
drivers go no further than the switch
Just beyond the railroad crossing,
where they take the car they meet
and return TO dinner. When ! arrived
at the railroad crossing the engineer
was oiling his engine, which was d.
fectly in my way.
He stopped ling, got. into his en-
CINE and moved up about fifteen feet
when he stopped and resumed oiling.
l crossed the track, went Oh to tie
switch and got on the returning car
which was No. 10, and started back
toward the crossing. Just as the
horse l was driving stepped upon the
railroad track the engineer rang his
bell and backed toward me. l. don't
think he was looking, for the tender
was next my car, and he had turned
his head to ring the bell. / saw the
engine coming and paid strict at
tention to my horse, believing there
to be no danger, as thought could
easily get across before he could strike
us. ! heard the screams and shouts,
but did not look back.
When l got across l stopped tho
car and saw the engine standing five
OF six feet from where the ear had SO
lately been, and a number of passen-
gers bending over some one on the
track. II was woman, and when |
saw her recognized her as one who
rides on the car every day. The |
blood was streaming from her ears
and nostrils when they picked her |
up. II she had stayed on the car she |
would not have been hurt"
The account OF the accident as Oh |
tanned from one of the Southern Pa.
ciGc officials was as follows
'sThe engine was backing down the |
track when the horse attached to the
car became frightened and dashed to-
ward the track, | don't think the
driver had hold OF his reins. Several
of the passengers who saw the en-
gine csming got frightened and |
jumped of. One woman fell, strik-
ing her head on rail or something,
and became unconscious. The en-
eineer stopped his engine fully ten
feet from the ear, and there was no
danger"
At 10 O'Clock last night the
HERALD's representative presented |
himself at Mrs. Crowells and en-
ouired how Miss Stevenson was pro-
She had not yet regained
consciousness and it is feared, is
fatally injured. The doctors fear she
has suffered conclusion Of the brain
and also sustained severe injuries to
her spinal colum. 1t Is not expected
she will recover.
Mics Stevenson has been iu Los !,
Angeles about two years, during
which time she has suffered a good |
deal, being very delicate. The car
driver was mistaken when he said he
her as lady who rode on
the cars every day, for yesterday was
her first day out for nearly two months,
she having been confined to her home
for that length of time.